Backdrop for The Bill of Rights
Poster for The Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights

(1939)

August 19, 1939• 0h 21m
60%
TMDB Score

Overview

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.

Crane Wilbur

Director

Top Billed Cast

TO

Ted Osborne

James Madison

MO

Moroni Olsen

Royal Governor Dunmore

LM

Leonard Mudie

Moreland

VS

Vernon Steele

Thomas Jefferson

JH

John Hamilton

Colonel George Mason

RB

Raymond Brown

TC

Tom Chatterton

Richard Henry Lee

SB

Sidney Bracey

Colonist

CH

Creighton Hale

New York Congressman

JH

John Harron

Carter